A Study on the use of Social Media towards Achievement of Accessible Election in Goa
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2023
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n India as per the census 2011, the population of Persons with Disabilities is 2.68 crore whereas there are 33,012 (17016 male and 15,996 females) Persons with disabilities in the State of Goa. A total of 62,63,701 Persons with Disabilities were registered within an electorate of 910 million in India, whereas 7474 were registered in Goa as on the 2019 Loksabha Election.
The main prominence of the study is to examine the use of social media towards the achievement of an Accessible Election in the Goa State Legislative Assembly General Election 2022 held on 14th February 2022. The data available in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Goa was used for the study.
Office of the Chief Electoral Officer Goa conducted State Legislative Assembly General Election 2022 and social media played a vital role in achieving the milestone of Accessible Election for
Persons with Disabilities, Transgender Electors. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and YouTube, were predominantly used to disseminate information about the Accessibility and the
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Sign Language Interpreter was involved to disseminate information and all the activities carried out were uploaded on social media to reach out to the Person with Disabilities Electors.
The overall impact of the use of social media is 9599 Person with Disabilities Electors were tagged. Transgender were enrolled first time as electors who cast their votes.
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Man, Environment & Society (Unsolved Dichotomies), Ed by Mali, D. S., Kulkarni, A. R. 2023; 172-180.